Search fatalities

Name Not Disclosed

Age :

Gender : Male

Race : Unknown

Date : 09/12/2021

Location : Sicklerville Road

City : Winslow Township

County : Camden

State : New Jersey

Agency : Gloucester Township Police Department

Officer(s) :Unknown

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Driver killed by police chase crash

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

.
REASON FOR POLICE CHASE:
Reported hit-and-run crash. Shortly after 10:00 p.m., Gloucester Township police received a report of a hit-and-run collision. Two Gloucester Township officers subsequently located the vehicle police believed was involved and attempted to stop its driver.
.
EVENT NARRATIVE:
On 09/12/2021, an unidentified male driver died following a Gloucester Township Police Department pursuit that began in Gloucester Township and ended before a four-vehicle crash on Sicklerville Road in Winslow Township.
.
Shortly after 10:00 p.m., police received a report of a hit-and-run crash in Gloucester Township. Two Gloucester Township officers subsequently located the vehicle police believed was involved. The officers began pursuing the driver after attempting to stop him. The New Jersey Attorney General's Office did not publicly describe the circumstances of the original collision beyond identifying it as a reported hit-and-run.
.
The two officers pursued the vehicle but terminated the chase before the fatal collision. Available public accounts do not give the pursuit's duration, distance or speeds, identify the location where officers terminated it, or state how much time or distance separated the termination from the subsequent crash. No PIT/TVI maneuver, stop sticks, roadblock or police-vehicle contact was publicly reported.
.
Soon after police terminated the pursuit, at approximately 10:15 p.m., the driver was traveling southeast on Sicklerville Road in Winslow Township when his vehicle collided with three vehicles traveling in the opposite direction. The sequence resulted in a four-vehicle crash.
.
Winslow Township police responded and provided first aid to several injured people until emergency medical personnel arrived. The pursued driver was transported to Jefferson Washington Township Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:57 p.m.
.
Three other drivers were injured. One was transported to Cooper University Hospital in critical but stable condition. Two male drivers were transported to Jefferson Washington Township Hospital with injuries described as non-life-threatening.
.
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office investigated the death under the state's requirement for independent investigation of deaths occurring during encounters with law-enforcement officers. The investigation was subsequently closed without presentation to a grand jury.
.
Despite the passage of nearly five years, the driver's identity does not appear to have been publicly released in the official or later reporting located for this reconstruction. Because his identity remains unconfirmed, biographical information about his life, family, occupation or interests cannot reliably be attributed to him.
.
OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The two Gloucester Township police officers who initiated the pursuit have not been publicly identified.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.njoag.gov/ags-office-investigating-death-of-driver-in-multi-vehicle-crash-in-winslow-township-that-occurred-shortly-after-police-attempted-to-stop-his-vehicle/
https://nj1015.com/after-fleeing-cops-in-nj-hit-and-run-driver-ends-up-dying-in-another-crash/
https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/ags-office-investigating-death-driver-multi-vehicle-crash-winslow-township-occurred-shortly-police-attempted-stop-vehicle/